Made the default mode 'rb' instead of 'r', for better cross-platform

support.  (Based on comment on the documentation by Bernhard Reiter
<bernhard@csd.uwm.edu>).

diff --git a/Lib/gzip.py b/Lib/gzip.py
index c0179a4716e12850d32c2c4752f583b510502b52..793bf5c585936c03c21b61fbdb4165b4e19d81e0 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/gzip.py
+++ b/Lib/gzip.py
@@ -30,13 +30,13 @@ class GzipFile:
     def __init__(self, filename=None, mode=None, 
                  compresslevel=9, fileobj=None):
         if fileobj is None:
-            fileobj = self.myfileobj = __builtin__.open(filename, mode or 'r')
+            fileobj = self.myfileobj = __builtin__.open(filename, mode or 'rb')
         if filename is None:
             if hasattr(fileobj, 'name'): filename = fileobj.name
             else: filename = ''
         if mode is None:
             if hasattr(fileobj, 'mode'): mode = fileobj.mode
-            else: mode = 'r'
+            else: mode = 'rb'
 
         if mode[0:1] == 'r':
             self.mode = READ